How to FlexStack Cisco 2960-S Switches
Why need to stack cisco 2960 Switch? Cisco FlexStack stacking for Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switches provides a true stacking solution with allswitches in a FlexStack stack acting as a single switching unit.Stacking Ethernet switches reduces the network administrator's total cost of ownership. The cost of maintaining thenetwork is decreased because there are fewer devices to manage, and the network uptime is increased with built-inredundancy.
Stacking 2960S switch Benefits:
20Gbps Bandwidth–the displayed speeds is actually 10Gbps, but because it is full duplex, that's how they arrived with 20Gbps.
Management–When stacked, all your switches are logically one switch. One management IP address to manage all three switches.
Cabling–Cleaner cabling since they stack from behind and would not interfere with any other cables you may have.
4 Member Switch capacity–You can stack up to four switches in your Flexstack switching fabric. This gives you much room for growth and 192 Ethernet 10/100/1000 ports with 16 optional modules.
Hot pluggable switches–You can remove and add switches while the stack is running. A working stack can accept new members or delete old ones without service interruption.
FlexStack–Hardware drop table.
The steps to stack Cisco 2960-S switches freely. The main components that you will need are: switches, stack modules and stack cables. Following the guides below:
1. Once you remove the stack module cover on the rear of the
switch, you will of course have gaping holes that you will need to insert the modules into!
2. Plug in the stack cables and allow the switches to select the
MASTER through an election process, or you can define which switch you'd like to be the MASTER by setting the priority to the highest level which is 15.
switch(config)# switch 1 priority 15
My switches are in order from top to bottom: 1, 2 and 3. (MASTER, MEMBER, MEMBER)
3. If everything is done right, you can visually tell which switch is the MASTER by looking at the front display LED lights.